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To change our country’s leadership, we must change our own state of mind. “Everything changes ...” We all know this; it’s a good thing. We thrive when we embrace our evolution. So five years ago when I found out I was going to be a single mom at the ripe old age of 38, I, well, panicked! Then I got busy. “Follow your bliss” became my driving force. I blossomed, feeling strong and beautiful, embracing the face of the Goddess called Mother in myself. Many magical, mystical changes were manifesting in my life, and my daughter has been my greatest initiator. Before long, the community I was laboring to give birth to came alive as She Drums, the Women’s Community Drum Circle. “Everything changes,” and that’s a good thing. Having a spiritual container, a conscious community, to share these changes with can give us the fortitude needed to continue to give birth to our most authentic selves. Sometimes we need to induce this labor, taking a chance to activate our creative spirit, taking the chance to change. Ask yourself, is it time to get a new soundtrack for your life? Is your soul asking you to change the beat, to dance to a different drummer in the cosmic choreography of celebration and peace? As we touch each others’ lives we change. When we join our positive intentions together we change our world. So what are your plans for Saturday, September 18, 2004? That’s when over 200,000 world citizens in over fifty nations—along with many more cyberspace attendees—will join together for the 8th Annual EarthDance—The Global Dance Festival For Peace, sponsored here in the Chicagoland area by Sanctuary, and co-promoted by The Collective HeartThrob, Tranzendance, 8:18@Unity, and Sanctuary. As with every EarthDance, the 24-hour international fete is opened with the Prayer for Peace, a simultaneous moment of music and meditation, which is at 6pm sharp, Chicago time. The Sanctuary EarthDance event is scheduled for 4:30pm-10pm at Lake Street Church, 607 Lake Street at Chicago Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. No partners necessary, all are welcome. $10 per person, children under twelve admitted free. Bring your drums and shakers, rattles and music makers. Proceeds will benefit The Great Oaks School in Skokie (www.greatoaksschool.org). EarthDance was founded by producer, promoter, and musician Chris Deckker; it sprung out of the synergy he experienced infusing spiritual concepts into mainstream U.K. clubs. “The blueprint for EarthDance was simple,” he says. “Here’s a day when we can all join together, have a cool party, and take a moment to focus our combined energy towards planetary peace. I believed we could translate an underground sense of community into festival-style hugeness, and build an international portal for peace.” In the beginning, as now, EarthDance events range from thousands of attendees to small house parties, in the spirit of welcoming involvement and positive change on every level. This is a “power of the people” movement. At this unique moment in history, we have an opportunity to grow this collective spirit of peace and hope for the future. Joining our gifts together for EarthDance, we will nurture and network the many realms of our unique personal potential, facilitating beauty, power and well being, for our mind, body, spirit and planet. The time for change is now, so “follow your bliss” to the Sanctuary of EarthDance ... Blessings and Peace. Hazel L’Aura G., www.shedrums.com, Ecstatic Dancer, Energy-Worker, Poet, Performance Artist, Contemporary Bard, has been called “The High-Priestess of Ritual and Resonance” by The Village Voice. Founder and facilitator of “She Drums,” the Women’s Community Drum Circle, the “We Drum Tribe,” a Community Drum Circle for All, and Sanctuary (the Funky Church of the Cosmic Rhythm), Your Communal-Free-Form-Sacred-Dance, as well as co-facilitating DEVA (Divine Expressions of Vital Alchemy), a dance collaborative. |
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